Israel is being de-legitimized and vilified throughout the world, primarily by the international media. Palestinian leaders Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad are turning to the UN General Assembly for recognition in order to avoid direct negotiations with Israel. And against this backdrop, outside of the historic Independence Hall where David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, proclaimed the establishment of a Jewish state on May 14, 1948, leading left-wing intellectuals — including some Israel Prize laureates — rallied in support of a Palestinian state.

There, in Tel Aviv, on April 21, 2011, actress Hannah Maron read out the declaration. “We have gathered here today, on April 21, 2011, to welcome the expected declaration of independence of the Palestinian state, Israel’s neighbor, with our borders of independence — which came into being at the end of the War of Independence in 1949 — the borders known as the ’67 borders.” The document drafted by the left-wing activists goes on to say:

The independence of both states strengthens each other. It is a moral and existential need and the basis for the possibility of good neighborly relations. We call on the citizens of Israel, the Knesset, the government, citizens of the world and their governments to recognize two states, in which the right to self-definition must be expressed by both peoples as well as the general principles of democracy and equality.

In their zeal to appease the Palestinians, these left-wing activists forgot to note the obligation the Palestinians have to recognize the Jewish state, end the teaching of hate for Jews and Israel, and eliminate the terrorist infrastructure that targets Israeli Jews. In only the most recent murder, five members of the Fogel family were brutally slaughtered by two young Palestinians, ages 18 and 19. When captured, they showed no remorse. If they had seen the other two sleeping children in the home, they informed the authorities, they would have slit their throats too. One is reminded of the words of Hillel, the rabbinic sage: “If I am not for myself who will be for me?” These intellectuals have yet to absorb the message.

While the media may try to use this declaration as an indicator of the pulse of the nation of Israel, in truth, the vast majority oppose the idea of a two-state solution at this time in history. Israelis are not buying into the rosy notion that Palestinians and Israelis will live side by side in peace. The Israeli public lives with the consequences of the failed Oslo Accords, which facilitated Yasser Arafat’s return from Tunis to Gaza and resulted in Israel evacuating its forces from West Bank cities so that the newly structured Palestinian Authority might run the affairs of the Palestinian people. The Israeli public readily recalls how the center-left Labor party of Itzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres — the architects of Oslo — continued negotiating with Arafat while his hateful incitement led the Palestinians to increase their attacks against Israelis.

And the left overlooks the concessions Prime Minister Barak made to Arafat during the July 2000 Camp David Summit. There, Israel supported the establishment of Palestinian state on 97% of the administered territories of the West Bank and Gaza. In exchange, they received Arafat’s “end of conflict” declaration — and the launching of the Second Intifada.

To refresh the memory of Israel’s leftist intellectuals, it is worth pointing out that it was the Arabs and not the Jews (who were then called Palestinians) who rejected the 1937 British Peel Commission recommendation to split Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. The Arabs subsequently rejected the United Nations Partition Plan of 1947 and, aided by the armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, invaded the newly founded Jewish state.

Today, 64 years later, the Palestinian Arabs, by refusing to recognize the existence of the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, are clearly rejecting the formula of “Two States for Two Peoples.”

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Adina Kutnicki, Israel

A main way to demonstrate, to draw a parallel nexus between leftism and self delusion, is to show how leftists, regardless of where they live, are incapable of evaluating the enemy, both internal and external.American leftists and Israeli leftists (as well as others)beat to the same delusional drummer.

The fact of the matter is, regardless of how many Jewish throats get slit, how many body parts explode, how many shot, and how many maimed for life, (all due to the PA cause they champion) it matters not a whit to those steeped in fantasy and self abnegation.Why?

Self delusion takes many forms, and to separate oneself from those being targeted,one has to jump through many mental hoops.Therefore, separating from nationalist Jews appears to be a good place for them to start.Moreover, many truly hate people-especially Jews-who adhere to both nationalist and religious precepts.

So, here we have a deranged group of Jewish leftists-and their anti-semitic/anti-Zionist cheerleaders-clamoring for Jew-killers to come even closer for the kill, more than willing to give away their patrimony.Moreover, these Jews could not care less about Israel being the homeland of the Jewish people from Time Immemorial,realizing that its rebirth fulfills a longing of a people for over 3,000 yrs.Their interest lies with an invented people, conjured up by Arafat-an Egyptian,with his Soviet/Romanian handlers-after the devastating results of the 1967 war.

They adopted the Roman imposed moniker for Judea-voila Palestine- intending to wipe out Jewish attachment to Zion, knowing full well that those who know no history wouldn’t connect the dots.The dots being, that the ‘Palestinians’ were first referenced as Jews by their Roman conquerors. See, Hadrian’s Curse, via google and elsewhere and it will explain the underpinnings.To wit, Arafat and his legion of Islamic Nazis understood what adoption of said ‘peoplehood’ would mean. It would start the process of identifying a conglomerate of Arabs(mostly Egyptian, Syrian Lebanese, Jordanian) with the name ‘Palestinian’, creating the fiction of a people other than Jews, having been in Israel from Time Immemorial.A revisionist history of piece with
In short, Israeli leftists, if not stopped-by whatever means possible-will doom us.They are indeed our enemies.
Holocaust deniers.These are the ‘people’ Israeli leftists champion,those who WILLINGLY/ACTIVELY work to erase us not only from history, but from the face of the earth-from the river to the sea…..

The ‘moderate’ minimum, non-negotiable Palestinian position is state on 1967 borders (ceasefire lines) PLUS return of all refugees (under UNRWA definition including all descendants) to their original homes and/or financial compensation; capital in Jerusalem (probably including areas such as Hadassah which were Israeli in 1948); full Israeli withdrawal from all territories captured in 1967; small areas along the West Bank frontier that were considered no-man’s land before the 1967 war; a strip of area between the Gaza Strip and West Bank to allow for a connection between them; retention of all rights of Israeli Arabs.

#1-Adina has it right! Correctly stated! “Palestinians” is a word, not a people. “The people” were an assortment of regional tribes, each with their own “leaders.” These “people’s” moved about the region as commerce would allow, after all, this bond to “trading (bartering) goods” amongst these diverse tribes and tribal leaders was a characteristic of the era.

For there to be a “new” Palestinian State, this heritage, ties and historic past would logically cease. Individual (tribal) identity would be lost (erased). A family name, being tribal in nature, would be meaningless in a “new Palestinian State.” Wouldn’t it be better to build on this historic heritage rather than create a totally new, unknown, “Palestinian State” having no past and a murky, unknown future?

Yasser Arafat tried, unsuccessfully, to create a viable government with this “new Palestinian State” in view. Look at what has evolved? At best, a divided plot of tribal families, divided into political blocks, each seeking to prize themselves with a lions share of government assets. Greed, corruption, connivances are this regions way of livelyhood. Has been and will always be. Leave it the way it…it’s broke, don’t bother to fix it.

These left-wingers think that they will retain their posh lifestyle in Tel Avivbut the PA wants all of Israel. No matter how many videos are translated from Arabic to show the truth they still vilify the country that pays their wages. It is always a one-way street–Arabs must be allowed to build and walk where they please while Jews are murdered in their sleep and their houses destroyed. Drive from Jerusalem north and you will see thousands of Arab mansions being built (illegally) with foreign funding to give a “PA presence”. On and on it goes. The world rails against us, and these fools try to tear us down from the inside. They call themselves Jews, but like the kapos in the camps they are just lowlife scum.

We can condemn them all the time,but their “liberal leftism” is the spiritual illness based of the Holocaust horror. #7 Dr(!) Shalit stll hopes that Pals will alow him to exist some-how in the small Israel! This people must be cured.

Those on the left are not really deluding themselves. They know what will happen if Israel goes back to the ’67 borders. They make speeches and sign petitions counting on the fact that it won’t happen. They are performing (as much for themselves as for others). People like the Fogels mean nothing to them — they understand nothing but their own need for attention. But just wait — fate or God or karma has a way of bestowing on us what we work so hard to achieve!